Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ultrasonic probe device and its control method
- Patent Title (中): 超声波探头装置及其控制方法
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Application No.: US13774301Application Date: 2013-02-22
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Publication No.: US08867314B2Publication Date: 2014-10-21
- Inventor: Miyuki Murakami
- Applicant: Olympus Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2010-240786 20101027
- Main IPC: H04B11/00
- IPC: H04B11/00 ; B06B1/02 ; G01N29/34 ; G01N29/24 ; A61B8/00

Abstract:
An ultrasonic probe device includes capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers, a band control unit and a bias voltage change unit. Each of the transducers belongs to one of groups, each of the groups includes at least one of the transducers. The band control unit determines the bias voltage value which varies for each of the groups, and a timing to apply the direct-current bias voltage having the bias voltage value so that all frequencies included in an operating frequency are transmitted and/or received by the ultrasonic probe device during an operation period. The bias voltage change unit changes the direct-current bias voltage to be applied to the capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers in accordance with the bias voltage value and the timing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130163383A1 ULTRASONIC PROBE DEVICE AND ITS CONTROL METHOD Public/Granted day:2013-06-27
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